This book offers a comprehensive description and analysis of
natural hazard warnings, drawing on perspectives from the social
sciences, physical sciences, and interdisciplinary fields such as
disaster studies to articulate a distinction between traditional
warnings and what might be called interdisciplinary warnings.
Traditional warnings approach warning technology, design, and
application from a principally scientific and technical
perspective. Human factors, while considered, often are of
secondary concern. Interdisciplinary warnings, on the other hand,
maintain a critical emphasis on the technical merits of warning
systems, but also ask, "Will psychological and community factors
such as culture and structure shape how the system is used, and, if
so, can this information be incorporated into system design
preemptively to make it more effective?" Given the absence of
systematic work on interdisciplinary warnings, a book-length
monograph discussing and synthesizing knowledge from the various
fields focused on warnings and warning response is of critical
importance to both academics and practitioners. Broadly conceived,
the book presents readers with an in-depth overview of warnings,
interdisciplinary research, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
The book holds appeal for a very broad audience: scholars;
practitioners; and academic, vocational, and technical instructors
both in University and non-University settings. It is of interest
to academic scholars due to the interdisciplinary treatment of
warnings as well as the general presentation of up-to-date
scholarship on warning theory. Additionally, scholars interested in
interdisciplinary work in general and those focusing on disaster
warnings find within the volume a framework for developing
collaborative research partnerships with those from other
disciplines. As well, the book offers practitioners --emergency
managers, mitigation specialists, planners, etc. --a more
comprehensive perspective on emergency response in practice,
allowing for better development and application of warning policy.
Finally, the book appeals to instructors both inside and outside
the academy. The authors envision the book useful to professors
teaching both graduate and undergraduate-level courses in Sociology
of Disaster, Emergency Management Planning, Homeland Security,
Disaster Response, Disaster Mitigation, and Business Continuity and
Crisis Management. A robust market also exists among professional
organizations, perhaps most notably FEMA, which offers countless
online and in-person training courses via the National Training
Program, Emergency Management Institute (EMI), and other venues.
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